RE: Use of Table Handling or DS?

["Fisher, Don" <Dfisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I usually place such things in physical files.  The file in this case would
have a field for the "B", "F", or whatever other value might be needed in
the future and another field for the type "1", "2", etc.  The file would be
keyed by the first field and the program would use the passed parameter to
execute the keyed record retrieval.

A slightly more flexible technique would be to have the "1", "2", etc.
values passed as parameters, perhaps in a file much like the one described
above.  In this case, the file would have fields for sequence number and the
type.  Each time the program is submitted, the next available sequence
number could be retrieved and used to populate the file.  All that has to be
passed to the program would be the sequence number. 

Hope that helps. 

Donald R. Fisher, III
Project Manager
Roomstore Furniture Company
(804) 784-7600 extension 2124
DFisher@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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I thought to create a compile time table as follows:
B123
F456
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